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One of 31 National Register listings published here for Wasco County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wasco Warehouse & Milling Company Hydroelectric Project Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 29 structuress, 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. White River Rd. and Sherars Bridge Hwy. (OR 216), Maupin, 97063
- When was it listed? June 2023
- Category. district
- Census division. Dufur
- National Register reference number. 100009054 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
31 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Wasco Warehouse & Milling Company Hydroelectric Project Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 30,566 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Hood National Forest | 920 |
| 17 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Prineville District | 1177 |
| 1 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Prineville District | WHITERIVER |
| 9 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.3 acres | Prineville District | BUCKHOLLOW |
| 5 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Prineville District | 737 |
| 3 August 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Prineville District | GRASSVLY 4 |
| 21 August 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 300 acres | Prineville District | TRESTLE |
| 20 August 2015 | Smoking | 93 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | WAMIC GRADE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Wasco Warehouse & Milling Company Hydroelectric Project Historic District: 11 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tygh Valley Dredge and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tygh Valley Dredge and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Keo Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Keo Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Shady Brook Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Shady Brook Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Tygh Valley Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Tygh Valley Quarrypit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maupin, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2009: 3 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maupin | $2,000 | Shingles were blown off roofs, patio furniture blown around, and pieces of plywood blown away. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maupin | - | Tree branches downed from winds estimated over 50 mph. |
| July 2002 | Wildfire | Maupin | - | The White River Fire, sparked by lightning, consumed 28,500 acres and four structures. The fire temporarily closed Highway 216. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Maupin | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Wildfire | Maupin | - | no account filed |
| October 1999 | Wildfire | Maupin | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Maupin Section Foreman's House | 5.2 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009054 in Record Group 79. |
| Wasco County | All 31 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.